When I first did my DNA one of my brick-walls was my 2x GGF born in 1821 in Derby. I knew his father's name, from his marriage certificate but that was all. One of my distant cousin matches was with someone who had this same surname on her family tree (a common name), but not him. However using this as a guide, and the fact that just then Ancestry put Derbyshire parish records on line, I managed to find his baptism and then went back a few more generations. He was a brother to the distant cousins ancestor. So DNA did help me to find his father, as without it I might not have looked at this family, as he was baptised in a completely different place to all of his siblings.
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